Having a problem mapping a drive to a EDM (Wire Cutting Machine) whose front
computer runs on NT4. No known probs/settings working with XP comps from EDM
Manufacturer. Any of our comps that are XP Pro (SP1 or SP2) cannot get to
subfolders (via browsing - hardcoding doesn't work either) to map the drive.
Mapping the drive from our WIN2000 machines is no prob. All on same network.

I'm leaning the problem must exist with the firewall somehow cuz I'm running
out of ideas. Anyone know how I can turn the firewall off so I can try?
Any other thoughts?

All help appreciated.

"=?Utf-8?B?V29vZG1hY2s=?=" <Woodmack@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in news:0964608A-29B7-45A5-822E-D410C6564472@microsoft.com:

> Having a problem mapping a drive to a EDM (Wire Cutting Machine)
> whose front computer runs on NT4. No known probs/settings working
> with XP comps from EDM Manufacturer. Any of our comps that are XP
> Pro (SP1 or SP2) cannot get to subfolders (via browsing -
> hardcoding doesn't work either) to map the drive. Mapping the
> drive from our WIN2000 machines is no prob. All on same network.
>
> I'm leaning the problem must exist with the firewall somehow cuz
> I'm running out of ideas. Anyone know how I can turn the
> firewall off so I can try? Any other thoughts?
>
> All help appreciated.
>

Start>Run and then type in "services.msc". Scroll all the way to the
bottom and stop the Windows Firwall/ICS service.

There are so many things it could be.

First, depending on how the NT 4 workstation was setup, you usually
need to supply credentials to connect to a share. Do you need to do
this?

If for example: there is a local account on the NT 4 box named
"sammy" with a password of "root". I have the same account on my
Windows 2000 machine with the same password and I am logged in as
"sammy" on the Windows 2000 machine. If I map a drive to the NT 4
box, it looks at my current credentials and lets me in. I didn't
have to supply them: the computer did.

Can you ping the NT 4 workstation from the XP machine?

By IP address?

By NETBIOS name?

If you drop to a CMD shell and type "net use * \\nt4machine
\sharename", what error do you get?

Is NETBIOS over TCP/IP enabled?

Are all workstations in the same domain or workgroup?

Adam